http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk Marketing Resources and Tips Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:17:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Warning - self promotional content! One of our simplest, but nicest looking, little sites for a while has just gone live, check it out at DearDoula.com A simple white, grey and purple colour scheme works really well, giving a very clean look which will appeal to the market Lexie is ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/what-is-a-doula-dear-doula-goes-live/ There is an interesting Harvard Business Review article called New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets which has some interesting findings about the latest must have social media networking site. As we know, there is a huge amount of coverage of Twitter in the media at the moment, but ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/who-is-using-twitter-and-why-not-facebook/ Blatant promotional content alert! One of our recent projects, the news website for Nantong, China, went live this week. Based on Wordpress, this site is rapidly becoming the news source of choice for the English speaking community in the city. The next step will be to make the site bi-lingual. Even if ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/nantong-life-goes-live/ Subtitle:  how to be an easy client and get what you want first time. After answering a question about this recently on LinkedIn it was obvious that there is some confusion about what a client side (marketing assistant / manager / director) should do, and what the role of the agency ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/what-does-a-marketing-agency-do/ In our now totally connected social media networking world, where even a 51 year old vicar's son from Lowestoft can have 14,000 followers on twitter we all need nice buttons on our sites to show which groups we belong to and where we virtually live. While working on the social ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/freebuttons-for-social-networking/ Guest Blogger: Kasumi DeMarco discusses a pastime that will almost certainly kill you, and compares it to a bobsled. [caption id="attachment_33" align="alignright" width="258" caption="Marketing as a winter sport?"][/caption] Bobsledding; the winter sport in which teams of two or four steer a sled down an ice-covered track, reaching super fast speeds, where the ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/market-the-bobsleigh-way/ Warning - blatant promotional content! A lot of our work at 1503 is done in China, though contacts we have developed over the years. Things we have done include rugby kit designs, bar websites, shipyard materials and now, art gallery sign design! Just to show how quickly things can be done, ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/18-8-studio-nantong-china/ Blasting out an email to a list of potential clients is a tempting marketing option. 1. It's near as makes no difference free 2. It's easy to do. 3. You can do it right now, no creatives, no printing, no delays. But you are also in danger of harassing people who are not interested ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/a-quick-guide-to-email-marketing/ With everyone telling us that we are doomed - doooooooomed I tell you - it's nice to see how dressing as bacon, facebooking and twittering can make you a couple of million dollars. By deciding that everything should taste like bacon, two madmen from Seattle invented Bacon Salt, and the ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/everything-should-taste-like-bacon/ I was going to write a piece on how and why I started this blog, but I found I was repeating a lot of the information on Penelope's Guide to Blogging, so I stopped. And thought for a bit. The key thing with an blog is that it is your personal interpretation ... http://www.marketinginsouthampton.co.uk/why-would-you-start-a-blog/